Facebook Looks for New Approaches to the Fake News Problem
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2016 was “surreal.” The Oxford English Dictionary went with “post-truth.” The Australian Macquarie Dictionary settled on “fake news.” No matter what term social media app developers prefer to use to define it, 2016 was the year that the conspiracies, propaganda, and outright hooey that used to be the purview […]
Mozilla Exits Mobile Development, Focuses on Browser
Most of us know Mozilla as the company behind Firefox, the highly customizable Chrome alternative. But to iPhone and Android app developers, the company is known for something else: Firefox OS, an intriguing but short-lived attempt to provide an alternative to Android and iOS. While the anti-native web-app-only interface showed a lot of promise in […]